{"id":838,"date":"2014-03-04T09:27:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T09:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=838"},"modified":"2014-11-10T10:24:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T10:24:22","slug":"a-conversation-with-jon-ronson-075-mar-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/a-conversation-with-jon-ronson-075-mar-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"A conversation with Jon Ronson (075, Mar 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It gives us great pleasure to welcome journalist, documentary maker, humorist and author\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonronson.com\/\">Jon Ronson<\/a>\u00a0to Banter. Between books like<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonronson.com\/them.html\"> Them: Adventures With Extremists <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonronson.com\/goats_04.html\">The Men Who Stare At Goats<\/a> to great documentaries like <strong>Dr Paisley, I Presume<\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonronson.com\/crazy_rulers.html\">Crazy Rulers of the World<\/a>, we&#8217;ve long been fans and admirers of his work.<\/p>\n<p>Jon will be joining us on Thursday March 20 to talk about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonronson.com\/frank_movie.html\">\u201cFrank\u201d<\/a>, his forthcoming e-book on the extraordinary Frank Sidebottom and the true story which inspired <a href=\"http:\/\/frank-film.com\">the forthcoming movie of the same name<\/a> by Lenny Abrahamson which stars Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson and Maggie Gyllenhaal.<\/p>\n<p>For a taster of what to expect from the book, have a read of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2014\/jan\/12\/frank-sidebottom-movie-michael-fassbender-chris-sievey\">this beautiful piece<\/a>\u00a0by Jon about Frank\u2019s creator Chris Sievey, which ran in The Guardian a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thisisbanter.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/9781447271376.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-839\" alt=\"9781447271376\" src=\"https:\/\/thisisbanter.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/9781447271376-674x1024.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/9781447271376-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/9781447271376-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/9781447271376-200x303.jpg 200w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/9781447271376.jpg 823w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Banter conversation with Jon Ronson takes place at the Twisted Pepper (Middle Abbey St., Dublin 1) on Thursday March 20. Doors open at 6pm and the talking starts at 6.30pm-ish. Admission is free but limited and you need to sign up to the invite list\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/embeddedform?formkey=dDNoY0xLRW9OQ2I0bGduTml0R0N2VUE6MA\">here<\/a>. <strong>[Please note that the\u00a0invite list is now closed]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It gives us great pleasure to welcome journalist, documentary maker, humorist and author\u00a0Jon Ronson\u00a0to Banter. Between books like Them: Adventures With Extremists and The Men Who Stare At Goats to great documentaries like Dr Paisley, I Presume and Crazy Rulers of the World, we&#8217;ve long been fans and admirers of his work. Jon will be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/a-conversation-with-jon-ronson-075-mar-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A conversation with Jon Ronson (075, Mar 2014)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}